'A Summer of AI Optimization': Veteran Engineer Reports Major Speedups in Widely Used Libraries
austinvhuang · x · 2026-09-22
Veteran engineer Daniel Lemire published 'A Summer of AI Optimization,' reporting that several well-maintained, widely used software libraries he maintains got substantially faster over a few months with AI assistance — unplanned, on already well-optimized code. Engineer Austin Huang shared it as evidence that the state of engineering isn't horrible: if you want to do engineering well with AI and avoid slop, you can.
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